AN: Nearing the end thanks to the swift voters!

Disclaimer: I don't own Transformers, even though I want to and I'd be filthy stinking rich because of it.

Author Disclaimer: Well, more like 'character disclaimer' but whatever.
Sarah is an OC that I did NOT create, nothing about her is mine. Not her life, her name, her design. Not even the idea of her being in the story. She is owned by, and always will be, scarlette16 a frequent and lovely reader of mine who I've come to appreciate dearly. She's allowed Sarah to be in the story and I am forever greatful!
Thanks scarlette16. You'll always be awesome to me! :)

Riya sighed, though smiling, she was a bit depressed.

After watching every cartoon and movie, reading every comic of the Transformers over a dozen times, Riya found no true consolation after Lola, Skywing and Cab left.

She was thrilled to see it worked, their plan, it took a few hours longer then they anticipated, but it worked and therefore Riya was pleased.

However, this left her alone again. With no real connection to the Autobots besides for her wheelchair confinement, Riya found her slight comfort talking to a friend she met when venting her frustration out on paper then publishing it on a website aptly named FanFiction.

This girl, who has introduced herself only as Sarah, began chatting up with Riya after she explained to her the accident and was currently stuck in a wheelchair.

Although Sarah was not told why, Riya planned on doing said confession this instant after a promise she made.

Riya spoke frequently with Sarah on a messenger, telling Sarah that tonight she would spill the beans and come clean right after she cleared her head and put her words into order.

(Bing!)

Riya looked back down to the laptop screen, seeing the messenger alerted Riya that Sarah was now available.

::Riya T.: Hey Sarah. Whazzup?::

::Sarah: Sorry I'm late. Caught up.::

::Riya T.: It's cool.::

::Sarah: I've been waiting all day for this! You've got to tell me what happened?::

Riya sighed, closing her eyes and stretching her fingers. "Okay... Here it goes..."

::Riya T.: Sarah, don't freak until I'm done. Promise?::

::Sarah: Pinky promise! :D::

::Riya T.: Okay... You probably won't believe it but here goes nothing...::

Riya took her time explaining the story with detail, making sure she made no confusion or risked any misunderstandings.

So far, Sarah had not replied to Riya's typing. Telling her all about the story or how the supposed fan-fictional work that was published and laid finished on the website was actually all true and reflected with great detail Riya's trip to the other Universe.

The strange silence that was Sarah worried Riya, she had never been the silent one being that she had told Riya she was not able to talk to others like she could with Riya. Open and truthful, although she could be with other people, Riya remained one of the few, or the only one which was never confirmed, that Sarah would let herself go and talk freely to.

::Riya T.: And after Laserbeak charged and blasted the machine I woke up back here, in Malibu, with cars around me and a guy named Byron, the guy who called the ambulance. I blacked out again and woke up in a hospital bed. When I left, I came straight back home and I haven't gone out since.::

Riya waited some time, hoping for a positive reply... She felt like her very life depended on a kind hearted reply from Sarah, which was not to be expected, after all, who could believe a fantastic story as that?

"Son of a glitch!" Skywing cussed, looking down to his feet. "I just stepped on another car..." He growled, Cab at his side and Lola riding on his shoulder.

"Then transform and fly out of here." Lola insisted.

"I can't transform here! I can barely even remember how to fly! Humans processors lose so much information so fast! How do you even remember to breathe?!" Skywing roared, trying his best to maneuver through the city streets.

"Cab, you can still drive right? I thought I taught you how." Lola looked down to the considerably shorter bot.

"Unlike Sky', I don't forget things!" Cab boasted, transforming on the spot.

"I'm just thankful I don't have to teach you how to live as a Cybertronian again..." Lola mumbled.

"Don't blame us for your fleshy bodies. They were hard enough to work, but to maintain a balance of contentment and mood! By Primus, I'd rather jump into a volcano withoutmy wings then do that again!" Skywing huffed, finally making it out of the city, ignoring the humans below cries of shock.

"They are easy to maintain, you just have to pay attention to when you are full, thirsty, fatigued or feeling sick. It's very easy. See? Right now I am very displeased with you and a little woozy from being up so high." Lola retorted, a smirk plastered on smugly.

Skywing grumbled, "Displeased?"

Lola smiled softly now, "Took it personally huh?"

"What did I do?" The offended mech whined, making sad chirping sounds.

"Aww..." Lola ran her hand down the side of his head. "You just smooshed every car in the city, not to mention you've scared every human out of their minds."

Skywing pouted now, offering a hurt puppy dog expression.

"But... We are home now, so far so good." Lola kissed the petted area of Skywing's head and, if a Cybertronian could, he turned red. "Riya said the Autobots monitored Mission City and, like she said we would, we're at Mission City, so all we have to do is wait."

Skywing took a seat outside the city limits, a decently sized hill overlooking the city. Lola stood on his shoulder, she put a flat hand over her eyes, looking side to side, in front and behind for the Autobots.

"Cab! See anybody?"

Cab, who was a good distance away but could hear with his audio receptors turned up, waved back. "No Autobots yet!"

Lola nodded. "Keep a sharp optic out! Skywing, you too."

"I just carried you here and stepped on every car in the city, do I not get a break?"

"First of all, I'm less then the weight of a feather to you and secondly, stepping on cars does not earn you a break it earns you a chewing out. Besides, you're a damn plane, you have better radar then Cab, you can see farther and sense farther. So start looking." Lola demanded and after their usual playful glaring, Skywing submitted and began scanning for the Autobots.

The buzzing of Skywing's scanners coming online for the first time in years rang in Lola's head before it stopped and Skywing did his, as Lola deemed it, serious face.

Down at the base of the large hill, Cab stood sighing and a bit tired.

"Ugh, when are those fragging Autobots?!" He whined after walking closer to the abandoned dirt road.

"Right now." A sound of a cannon charging and aiming ripped Cab's attention from the dirt road.

Cab turned around instantly after the voice appeared, now fully aware, Cab saw the Autobot symbol on the black cannon-wielding mech.

"Ironhide!" He cried, smiling widely.

Visibly faltered, taken off guard by the young mech's sudden cry, Ironhide stared at Cab in shock.

"How do you know me?" He questioned, just as the other Autobots; Ratchet and Optimus appeared.

"Well, besides for the comics and those new movies, Riya told us."

The Autobots, all three came the to conclusion they heard wrong and that their audio receptors had taken damage that Ratchet's had not fixed properly.

Ironhide reacted unlike the others. His cannon fired off, both next to the slightly smaller mech. "How to you know that name!" He roared so enraged even my the mention of Riya's name that he took it as Cab blatantly disrespecting the deceased.

Cab jumped clean out of his transistors.

"How do you know that name?!" He charged his cannon's as much as they could without short circuiting but they were overheating to the point of sharp pains running through Ironhide's arms.

The Autobots behind Ironhide did not look any less threatening, they all kept a rigid, harsh stance. Each one unknowing of Cab's actual good intentions, but Ironhide had frightened the young bot so where he was too afraid to speak or do anything for that matter.

Thankfully, Skywing and Lola heard the shots and rushed down the hill to face the subject who caused it.

Skywing placed Lola on the ground, aiming his own rather large cannon at Ironhide.

"Power down, Autobot." Skywing demanded and with his physical stature, being larger then Ironhide and almost as large as Optimus himself, he was able to at least intimidate Ironhide a little.

But that was not Ironhide's style.

He kept his duel cannon's charged and aimed at Cab, who stood scared stiff, staring at his offender.

"I said, power down." He barked again, only receiving a quick side glance from the Weapon Specialist.

However, behind the gun squad were the two Autobots and Lola, all standing rather tense in the situation.

"Would you be so kind as to tell your Weapon Specialist, Ironhide, to stand down?" Lola looked to the two rigid frames of the CMO and Optimus Prime, both looked down to Lola rather surprised.

With the tensity gone, Ratchet instantly played back his memory to the recording of the human woman and the Cybertronians who bore no faction. It was easy to remember and even easier to relate the group being that they were the only three besides for Scatterwing to be introduced fully on the recording.

Their identity now registered in Ratchet's processor, he was caught stunned by the three.

"Pardon me, but Skywing will shoot and I know Ironhide will. We're here to be allies, we are not Decepticons and most certainly mean no threat to you personally." Lola tried to catch the stunned CMO, but only received reply from Optimus, who turned back up to face the three caught in a test of will.

"Ironhide, stand down." He ordered.

"Optimus, he said her name. How can this not be suspicious?" Ironhide asked, still aiming at Cab.

"I can explain that!" Lola called to the black mech, "But you'll have to disarm first, then we'll talk, well, after we reach a secluded place of course."

Optimus and Ratchet, who finally came out of his daze, shared a knowing look, a nod then an order. "Stand down. We will head back to base with them and then they can explain how they knew Riya." Optimus and Ratchet had a ping of pain that streaked across their optics before returning to normal. As did Ironhide. Each one hated using past tense when referring to Riya, even though it was the grammatically correct way to address a person who has passed on.

Ironhide growled and very slowly, very reluctantly he powered down his cannons and disarmed his cannons returning to his normal hands. "Fine..." He grumbled, still glaring at Cab and Skywing.

"Sky', stop being rude and let's get." Lola rolled her eyes, knowing Skying would never disarm himself without knowing the offender was either dead or gone permanently.

Sighing, Skywing disarmed his own giant cannon and relaxed. "You alright Cab?"

The relived bot stood wide optic at Ironhide's glare which looked like it truly could kill.

"No." He grinned weakly, glancing to Skywing before turning his watchful optic back on Ironhide.

"Sky', Cab let's go. Follow the 'bots." Lola said which during Cab and Skywing transformed.

"Get in Lola." Cab's cheerful yet nervous voice chimed as his driver door popped open.

"Sky', thought you said flying was a problem since you couldn't remember how?" Lola asked, standing right outside Cab's door.

"It is, but it's safer learning it all over by myself out in the middle of no where then it is with you in a full city." Skywing took off before Lola could reply.

When she slid into Cab's seat, the door shut and the engine revved. Following closely the three Autobots that were all probably very confused right now.

Sighing, Riya thought she had just scared away Sarah for good. Until she replied thoroughly.

::Sarah: That... is... AWESOME!::

Riya stared at the reply before another was giving.

::Sarah: I SO wish I could be you right now! That would've been so AWESOME!!::

Riya's tensity gone, clearly all her stress and worry was for nothing, Sarah seemed to understand... As much as a person could. However, Riya received the feeling that Sarah did not actually believe all or any of it. Just that it was awesomeand liked Riya's imagination.

::Riya T.: So, you really do believe me?::

::Sarah: It's impossible though... :P ::

::Riya T.: I know, it should be. But I know what I saw and you sure as hell don't feel pain in a dream or wake up in a hospital right after that happened and are forced to live in a wheelchair for the next year. No mugger could have caused the damage on me like this.::

::Sarah: Tell you what, if you got some proof. Pass it here and I believe you. Until then I just can't believe it... It's impossible!::

::Riya T.: Yeah, I wish I was still there though...::

::Sarah: Wat's up Riya?::

::Sarah: What's* x) ::

::Riya T.: LOL.::

::Sarah: Shuddup. xP ::

::Riya T. ROFL.::

::Sarah: xD::

::Sarah: No seriously, what's up?::

::Riya: I was so mean to them when all they did was try to help me. I thought I was in a hospital bed, dreaming it all up and I didn't care about them... I was so harsh on them. I know I apologized to Ratchet once or twice :P but I was still inconsiderate and that makes me feel like shit.::

::Sarah: What happened to you attempting to stop cursing?::

::Riya T.: -.- Fine. "makes me feel like crap." Better?::

::Sarah: Better. :) ::

:Riya T.: Well, anyways, that's my problem. I owe them something, I need to talk to them and tell them how sorry I am about it all... I suck. D: ::

::Sarah: You thought you were in a hospital right?:

::Riya T.: Yup.::

::Sarah: You thought you were dreaming it all too. So that's understandable, you can't care for something you don't believe exists.::

::Riya T.: Still, I've always given people the cold shoulder. I need to stop...::

::Sarah: You're not giving me the cold shoulder. :) ::

Riya smiled. Finally feeling comfortable.

Sarah was right, Riya was not insulting her or being stubborn to Sarah in anyway and at first, Sarah did not know Riya was wealthy, nor that Riya was cold hearted in the beginning. While Riya saw it, Sarah did not and could not.

Riya bought Sarah a web-cam, shipped it off to her and they both connected, seeing each other for the first time. Riya thought for sure doing this would have ruined their friendship, making Sarah feel obligated to please the dirty rich child.

But instead, Sarah changed by being more open with Riya. More honest. And Riya finally found her best friend, now her only friend.

After growing closer with Sarah, Riya dropped all of her old friends since they were all interested in Riya for her money.

With a pleasant sigh, Riya continued.

::Riya T: You're awesome Sarah.::

::Sarah: I know.::

GrimlockX4: You're an angel. :D
Love ya' Grim, I've found myself giddy just waiting for your reviews!
Oh yes and I want to tribute you for being one of my first reviewers... Perhaps a mentioning of your name? Huh! What do ya' say? :D

scarlette16:Sarah has met with Riya! Yay! But, even though this story is ending I have bigger plans for Riya and Sarah two years in the future, in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
Yeah... Skywing's a lot like Ironhide, but also a lot like a Decepticon. He hatesjust about anyone he doesn't know personally. Ooo, you may find out why sometime! :3

WhiteWolf Demon-Slayer: Amy and Jay will appear probably next chapter as an accidental meeting. That cool? :)
Anyways, where's my next chapter of "Car's and Girl's"hmm? :|

Shibo26:Yeah, school is so dumb. All they teach you are important things. What about the unimportant things?! What about them!? They lay starving and cold in the ally ways, dying for love! Give them hope brethren! Give them hope!
Er, well thanks. I get carried away when typing that half the time I'm just staring in to space waiting for something interesting to happen... :D
I'm crazy like that, but it seems to me that if I wasn't crazy, no one would be reading my story.
2.: They had Lola, the scientist who discovered the "Portals"and because she was there, she was able to adjust Skywing and Cab into human life. Showing them how to live properly, healthily and happily. Without her, they'd either be dead or mentally unstable.
So love Lola, she's worked hard non-stop to help those two poor Cybertronians, for they so terribly needed it! Yay! Everyone loves Lola!

Bumblebeezgirl: It feels good to type your name again!
And I agree fully, Riya needs to get away. From the looks of it, it seems like she slipping into a deep depression! Oh noes!